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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2002

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Fatih Birol, chief economist and head of the Economic Analysis Division at the International Energy Agency, presenting findings from the agency's World Energy Outlook 2002 report.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS holds a news conference to release Automaker Rankings: The Environmental Performance of Car Companies. The report reveals the environmental gains and backsliding of the world's largest automakers

WHO: The speakers are:

Jason Mark, Director, Clean Vehicles Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

Laura L. Huskins, Financial Analyst, Trillium Asset Management

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-223-6133

WEB ADDRESS: ucsusa.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM AND HEALTH AFFAIRS hold a program entitled Doctor Dilemmas, Nurse Dilemmas: New Perspectives on the Healthcare Workforce of the Future.

AGENDA: Highlights:

10 a.m. - Fitzhugh Mullan, Health Affairs

10:10a.m. - Richard Cooper, Medical College of Wisconsin

"Medical Education Futures: Options for Growth"

Gail Wilensky, Project HOPE

10:25 a.m. - "Public Goods and Private Goods: The Future of Graduate Medical Education"

10:40 a.m. - John McManus, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee

"Medicare GME Politics and Prospects"

12 noon - Robert Ross, California Endowment

"The Diversity Challenge in the Health Workforce of the Future"

Nursing Dilemmas

1:15 p.m. - Sue Hassmiller, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

1:20 p.m. - Peter Buerhaus, Vanderbilt University

"The Size and Shape of the Nursing Workforce of the Future"

1:35 p.m. - Marilyn Chow, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California

"Nurses, Systems, Care, and the Future"

1:50 p.m. - Fran Roberts, Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association

"State and Local Approaches to the Nursing Workforce Challenge"

2:05 p.m. - Laura Cima, Hackensack University Hospital

"The Real World of Nurse Staffing: How to Make it Work"

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: Hyatt Regency- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-2300

WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on the Albanian National Question and Balkan Security with Elez Biberaj, Chief, Albanian Service, Voice of America.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a program on The Third Rail Is Dead: Social Security and Election 2002.

WHO: The speakers are:

Elizabeth Dole, Senator-Elect, North Carolina

John Sununu, Senator-Elect, New Hampshire

Pat Toomey, Representative, Pennsylvania

David Winston, Winston Group.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 104 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS: cato.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on Implications of the New Farm Bill for Developing Countries featuring Robert Thompson, Senior Advisor, National Center for Food and Agriculture.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-328-5000

WEB ADDRESS: rff.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE luncheon briefing with Tom Nag, professor at The George Washington University discussing America Marches to War: Water as a Weapon.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-338-1290

WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org

TIME: 12:15 p.m.

EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION brownbag lunch on Middle East Economic Policy entitled Region In Play: The Costs and Consequences of the Failed Arab Economy.

WHO: The speakers are:

Stephen J. Glain, Former Middle East Bureau Correspondent, Wall Street Journal Journalist-in-Residence, Center for Global Development

Peter Bergen, Fellow, New America Foundation Author, Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

Steven C. Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901

WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net

TIME: 1:30 p.m.

EVENT: PEW RESEARCH CENTER holds a news conference to discuss Global Attitudes.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC CONTACT: Elizabeth Gross @293-3126

WEB ADDRESS:people-press.org

TIME: 2 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference on "Two Koreas: Implications of Presidential Elections and North Korean Reform."

AGENDA: Highlights:

2 p.m. - Nathaniel Thayer, Director Japan and

Korea Studies, SAIS

Ahn Choong-yong, President, Korea Institute for International Economic

Policy

2:10 p.m. - Panel one:Policy Implications of the Korean Presidential Election

Nathaniel B. Thayer, Professor, SAIS

Jae Ho Chung, Associate Professor (International Relations), Seoul National University and CNAPS Fellow, Brookings Institution

Kirk Larsen, Assistant Professor, George Washington University

Don Oberdorfer, Journalist-in-Residence, SAIS

Peter Beck, Director of Research, KEI

3:45 p.m. - Panel two:How Much Economic Reform in North Korea?

Joseph Winder, President, KEI

Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

Yoon Deok-ryong, Senior Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

Oh Seung-ryul, Director, International Cooperation Division, Korea Institute for National Unification

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Pacific Creolization: Searching for Emerging Shared Values in the Japan-U.S. Borderlands.

WHO: The speakers are:

Julie Higashi, Ritsumeikan University

Takeshi Matsuda, Osaka University

Chieko Kitagawa Ohtsuru, Kansai University

David Willis, Soai University

Yutaka Sasaki, Soai University

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: The Committee for Western Civilization Adams-Madison Forum on terrorism entitled "The War We Are In - Continued."

WHO: The speakers are:

Col. Ed Badolato (ret. USMC), The Shaw Group

David Isby, Esquire, Senior Staff Member, Sparta, Inc.

Dr. Stanley S. Bedlington, Former counterterrorism analyst for the CIA

Dr. Douglas E. Streusand, Professor, American Military University Director, Global Strategy Seminar

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: Institute of World Politics, 1521 Sixteenth Street, NW

CONTACT: 202-338-3239

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a featuring author Joel C. Rosenberg discussing and signing The Last Jihad. The Last Jihad lays out a post-9/11 scenario for confronting terrorism and terrorist regimes. It is the first political thriller that takes readers behind-the-scenes of a crisis between the U.S. and Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and the catastrophic dangers of waiting too long to disarm Iraq and bring about "regime change."

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-675-1752

WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Corey Harris, maverick blues guitarist singer/songwriter paying homage to 1995 Honoree B.B. King.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Elliott School of International Affairs Robert J. Pelosky, Jr. Distinguished Speaker Series presents Thomas Homer-Dixon who is the director of the Center for the Study of Peace and Conflict and associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto discussing his latest work on the theory of "synchronous failure," or the simultaneous breakdown of social systems on a global scale. He says we tend to "silo" our challenges or problems - from climate change to international economic instability to terrorism - in isolation and not see the links among them DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-994-3087

WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Author event with Eric Ripert and his new book, "A Return to Cooking." Ripert was joined by Colombian artist Valentino Cortazar and photographers Tammar and Shimon Rothstein, who captured his journey in their artistry.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a lecture to discuss "Toward Greater Democracy in the Muslim World."

WHO: The speakers are:

Richard N. Haass, Director of Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State

Fouad Ajami M. Khadduri Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of

Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C

CONTACT: 212-434-9537

WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE holds a discussion on The Press Effect: politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World with Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman, Director and Associate Director, respectively, of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

DATE: December 4, 2002

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com